Intro to Quanta of Contemporary History

Can contemporary history be developed as a nexus of discrete essays regarded as individual quanta that might thereafter be sorted into groups and transformed through various field symmetries into distilled subject-meaning units? We wonder if elements of linguistic philosophy especially the ontological relativity of W.V.O. Quine and tool paradigms of quantum physics could be applied to history writing?

The world political and social culture is a vast template for analysis. It seems that world the political economy and ecosphere is too complex to fit within competent political management. Thus a more impartial quantum approach to history writing capturing some real-time opinion and ideas apprehended by the historian, as philosophical commentator might be worthwhile.

Perhaps the quantum unit template of contemporary history is old tradition in modern history compilation with techniques well developed, yet perhaps not. This is my initial approach and for due to various constraints will be limited. I will apply this method to my next contemporary history volume, Quanta of Contemporary History.

Quantifying contemporary history as units of event-process phenomena in a given space-time nexus can paint a mosaic for the contemplative reader of what sort of things occurred and were of interest. In the world today all issues seem inter-related or contingent. Not only are simultaneous histories developed like space-time coordinates in a field addressed with general relativity, there is a transcending monist continuum in which all the events of the year are embedded. We wonder how general relativity and the independent values of space-time apply within the finite mass of a Universe with an overall monistic history of expansion and realize that it is to an observer traveling through the cosmos that relativistic space-time differentials occur. Only for an historian or reader of contemporary events would the complete complex of events arise as a mosaic of discrete, individual quanta units of history.

Ideas too form quanta units of contemporary history. Ordinary citizen analysis and awareness of a vast national and global field of event-process contribute to the development of democratic opinion formation and even expression of political interest and will in public forums such as online Internet sites. It is challenging today to record what ideas or worldview any individual has or had regarding contemporary history. This volume essentially portrays my own ideas written over the past ear on various emergent subjects of interest.

It is too easy for the privileged to cross over the border these decades as if it has no reality. Since the first Boeing jetliner in 1958 the ease of global travel has increased. With the Internet and e-commerce globalists have a difficult time knowing where borders are.

A world without borders for corporations does not necessitate a world of peace, democracy or individual civil with liberty and justice for all in a good environment. The rise of advantage for globalists coincides with a decrease in individual economic liberty and the growth of networked ad hoc collectivism through Wall Street. Political free expression and local political control declines in a neo-corporatist global economic environment. Politics going against the mainstream tends to be repressed. Political lemmings rush headlong toward eco-disasters the market is unwilling to recognize ahead such as global warming and mass species extinction.

Fortunately for those inclined to disfavor nationalism U.S. politics has developed a contemporary application of Darwinism that helpfully obfuscates the nagging idea of nationalism and national interest. Evolution theory has developed in politics as a buzzword for fate.

Evolution political theory is a blind historical force determining political development rather than intelligent design inclusive of the well being of all U.S. citizens in the U.S.A. today. It is a convenient excuse enabling the concentration of wealth and political power in privileged elites. Political evolution theory applied as an equivalent of the oriental joss (fate) may be satisfactory for select scientific classes of epistemological extremists on the left and right with a point of view of human mind upgraded in the worst of B.F. Skinner's behaviorist paradigm of human organicism. The human body in that paradigm is meat and mind is no more than a bio-chemical apparition within.

Good Summer Non-Fiction Reading

Nigel Warburton recently left his position as senior lecturer at the Open University. The philosopher takes a turn at non-Academic philosophy free of the constraints of academia. His recent book Philosophy Bites Back with David Edmonds is at the top of my list of non-fiction. There are more non-fiction books of interest.

The Future by Al Gore leads with the concept of globalism as a stateless .com for the Utopian evolution. Cynics take a different view of globalism. Thunder on the Mountain by Peter A. Galuszka takes a hands on dirty look at big coal and corporate indifference. We don't believe globalism will improve human nature much, but will instead enforce a draconian domination by oppressive elites.

Conscious Capitalism by John Mackey of Whole Foods and Raj Sisodia seek to improve the 'heroic spirit of business' by upgrading their thinking caps through guru'd mentoring. Good luck. It's a good read too.

Plutocrats by Chrystia Freeland is subtitled THE RISE of the NEW GLOBAL SUPER_RICH and the FALL OF EVERYONE ELSE. This book sounds like a must-read. Evidently people are interpreting the global elephant of capitalism and corporatism in different ways believing it will run amock and trample every place the grapes of wrath are stored profitably or dump too much fertilizer. 

Jared Diamond wrote THE WORLD UNTIL YESTERDAY subtitled What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies. I like this topic quite a bit and hope to find the time to read the book. In the meantime here are a couple of traditional society tips.

Long ago S.E. Alaska had less water and more land and ice. When the end of the Wisconsin ice age started 16,000 years ago that all changed. Ice started melting and the sea level rose. Though Alaska brown bear genetically have two different lines arriving at different times and being isolated by rising water on islands such as Admiralty, they wern't the only ones affected. Human settlements of S.E. Alaska also changed.

Anthropological pre-history has people boating or walking along the Pacific coast maybe 20.000 years ago to points south with the now submerged land erasing the trail. It is known though that Athabascan tribesmen arrived from the Yukon and Stikine River maybe 5,000 years ago. They built a network of salmon traps in S.E. enabling a renewable harvest. Folklore reports Tlingits (means Sea Lion clan) of the larger Tongass tribe of Athabascans wasted very little of salmon eggs putting some of the egg and roe together in the streams before eating the fish. Salmon roe has vitamins A, C and D with 30% protein and no trans-fat or carbs.

Another fact is that Tlingits were the last tribe to have slaves in the U.S.A. They had traditional war with neighboring tribes such as the Haida executing as many as 70,000 a story goes in the mists of traditional history keeping a single hair count of each dead warrior building up to several inches thick. The Haida lived at Skid Gate in the Queen Charlotte Islands and may have arrived from Hawaii in large canoes manned by 60 warriors and/or women. Hai in Chinese means ocean I think, like Shang-hai means the Shang (original Chinese tribe) ocean. Our blue water navy can learn something from that too maybe.

Alaska News of HAARP, Weather/ Mind Control, Boundary Petitions & U.S. Senate Campaign

The U.S. Senate seat up for grabs in the 2016 Alaska election currently held by Mark Begich-a Democrat, got a new candidate today-Alaska's Republican Lt. Governor Mead Treadwell. Treadwell will join another candidate-Joe Miller (who ran unsuccessfully against party-line-jumping Republican-to-Independent-to-Republican Lisa Murkowsky losing the close election with cross-over Democrats voting for Murkowsky in 2010) in the run against the son of former U.S. Representative Nick Begich who was killed in the K.A.L. 007 shoot-down by a Soviet fighter-jet decades ago over Sakhalin Island.

Begich has a somewhat aloof webpage making it more difficult to send him emails than the Republican congressional delegation. Sen. Begich heated many Anchorage sidewalks when Mayor to melt ice. He also appeared with George Norrie on Coast-to Coast AM to discuss HAARP several times. What the government's hidden program of ethereal transitions was about was the concern. As Senator he hasn't told us if those evil machinations are still sending out possibly bad waves or if tin foil hats are a good enough defense. Maybe HAARP helped spy satellites listen to conversations of extra-terrestrials on Chinese mountaintops. Yek the dreaded possibility remains that Mark sold out to exobiological martinets pulling strings of U.S. political economy from the deep lab at Area 51 and won't disclose the facts he has learned.

http://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2005/10/23 HAARP, Weather and Mind Control

The Treadwell vs. Miller Republican primary should be a good one with the incumbent Begich watching from the sidelines (Begich beat the late Sen. Ted Stevens after he was convicted of seven felonies that were eventually thrown out on appeal) will have to guess if the scion of the Treadwell gold mine family or the Yale Law, Univ of Alaska Fairbanks M.A. in Economics, Bronze Star winning man-of-the-people will be his opponent in 2016.

The Treadwell Mine in Juneau was a fascinating turn-of-the-century development that was state-of-the-art in its day with some facilities for workers and their health. Lt. Governor Treadwell still prefers natural resource development, though it's no longer the turn of the 20th century. There will be 11-12 billion people on Earth by 2100 and global warming controls and mass species extermination reversals are not developing at an adequate pace to work. Politicians should be leaders instead of throwers of accelerants on global eco-flames.

Anchorage Mayor Dan 'Body Count' Sullivan has thrown his hat into the race for Lt Governor. Sullivan's record of making life difficult for the poor of Anchorage let residents watch the annual winter body count of homeless people dying of hypothermia increase to as many as 11. Anchorage is a city were realistic effective policy can be far more important to life than traditional and hardened insider political postures.

The Alaska State Supreme Court threw out the political reapportionment process last month directing it be restarted. We will probably all get new voter's I.D. cards if the cookie cutters can decide how to best gerrymander the districts to let foreign corporations scarf down anything valuable

The Juneau-Petersburg borough boundary issue was decided in favor of Petersburg. The natural boundary would have given Petersburg as far north as Kupreanov Island's north end to Cape Fanshaw. Petersburg instead got the equivalent of a position on Juneau's 30-yard line at Holkam Bay.

http://commerce.alaska.gov/dca/lbc/2012_City_and_Borough_of_Juneau_Annexation/

One wonders if environmental concerns were the reason why? With a far smaller number of people living in Petersburg maybe development of natural resources would be slower than if Juneau got an equal portion of wilderness. Yet the reasoning might be the opposite; Juneau might have more environmentalists than Petersburg making getting easy approvals from the Petersburg borough assembly more attractive to  disposable-ecosphere developers.

http://juneauempire.com/local/2012-10-28/juneau-appeals-petersburg-borough-boundary-approval       

http://www.alaskapublic.org/2013/01/03/petersburg-becomes-19th-borough-in-alaska/

Juneau has a highly visible drive-up glacier, the Mendenhall Glacier, that is in fast melting recession because of global warming. The Mendenhall Valley auto culture is a local focal point pollution source for northern greenhouse gas  emission where one can see the direct damage perhaps working against Juneau's credibility as  conservator of vestigial wilderness in S.E.

Mendenhall Glacier

Road building mania drives many including the Governor and Lt. Governor to seek roads to Haines and adverse impact on whale lifestyles not too numerous wolves, marmots and indirectly human life on Earth. The cheap and easy cookie jar of wild environment drives plundering instead of creative economic invention and renewal of habit on Earth. One would hope these geniuses would develop a green ethic for transplanting to make lifeless exo-planets green and Lush before desertification of Earth kills us all.

Image credit State of Alaska

The city-borough of Juneau is correct in appealing the decision to give the area in red to Petersburg. Petersburg's natural range of influence should end at Cape Fanshaw. The area in red should be set aside for non-development so whales and voyageurs might have relief from the maddening crowd in the few decades of eco-health remaining ahead.

Whale jumps at Faragut Bay April 2013

Internet & S.S.U.T.A. Taxation Status Explained by Rep. Don Young of Alaska

Alaska Rep. Don Young explains efforts to tax the Internet through the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement that 24 states have signed in to.

   " Thank you for contacting me regarding H.R. 684, the Marketplace Fairness Act of 2013.  I appreciate you taking the time to share your concerns with me.

     Under the Commerce Clause of the Constitution, a state may not impose tax collection responsibilities on an out-of-state seller that does not have a physical presence in the state.  This interpretation has allowed many online businesses to sell to customers in various states without having to collect and pay owed sales taxes unless the business has an actual building in the states.  In fact, to combat this many states have established laws that require the customer to pay the sales tax to their home state, but the rate of compliance is extremely low.

     The inherent difficulties in collecting state-specific sales taxes led many state tax administrators to form a working group tasked with finding a uniform way to collect sales taxes among the states.  In 2002, the working group produced the Streamlined Sales and Use Tax Agreement (SSUTA), which was adopted by 24 states so far.  Alaska has not adopted the SSUTA and does not impose a sales tax on its businesses or purchasers.

     On February 14, 2013, Representative Steve Womack (R-AZ) introduced H.R. 684 to allow states to impose sales tax collection duties on remote sellers if the state has adopted the SSUTA or similar state legislation.  An exemption would be provided to sellers with online gross sales less than $1 million per year.  This means that if H.R. 684 were law, any state which adopted the SSUTA would have to collect sales taxes from its constituents, who purchased products online from an out-of-state vendor, and remit those taxes to the vendor's home state.  Opponents of this legislation argue that the legislation would force online retailers to become tax collectors for the 46 states who collect sales taxes.  Furthermore, they argue that enacting H.R. 684 into law could mean online businesses facing multiple out-of-state audits if these businesses fail to collect the proper amount of taxes.     As more and more purchases are made over the Internet and states experience more and more fiscal troubles, state governments are looking for new ways to collect taxes from sales generated online.  Alaska does not impose a state sales tax and has not adopted the SSUTA.  Therefore, it does not appear that H.R. 684 would affect Alaskans even if it were adopted.  However, if Alaska were to adopt the SSUTA, the idea that H.R. 684 could force Alaskan online vendors to become tax collectors for 46 states is troublesome.  For that reason, I remain highly skeptical of H.R. 684 in its current form."

Israel-Palestine Two-State Solution Officially Dead Says Saeb Erekat

The two-state solution to incessant Palestinian attacks on Israel is officially dead according to Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat. Erekat made the remark in reply to a statement by Israeli Economic minister Naftali Bennet. Deputy Defense Minister Danny Dannon echoed Bennet's recalcitrance on a two-state solution. We thought as much might develop following the brutal Shia-Sunni civil war in Iraq after the 2003 invasion of the coalition of the willing and neo-con bungling of nation-rebuilding.

Gaza's Hamas party has never quit attacking Israel, and as first cousin of the Muslim Brotherhood the two-state solution founded on a secular government in Egypt and a more moderate P.L.O does seem anachronistic. In the current political environment of a destabilized Middle East, with shoulder-fired anti-jetliner missiles purloined from the late Libyan Dictator Moamar Ghaddafi's arsenal possible reaching Al Qaeda of the Nigeria or the Maghreb, and with a recrudescent Sunni collection of visiting terrorist and revolutionaries active in Syria seeking to establish another Muslim Brotherhood branch government Israel is increasingly seeming to be in something like a geopolitical situation like that before the 1967 Middle-East war where a pan-Arabic group  of governments led by Abdul Nasser developed and executed belligerent actions. If Israel were to accept a two-state solution they would in effect simply be cede defense territory before a possible next conflict.  That would not be in Israel's interest.

http://nationaluasi.com/dru/node/1126

While the U.S. administration has said it would start to donate small arms (weapons of war such as assault weapons, grenades, semi-automatic pistols, machine guns and such) to particular illegal combatants in Syria who pro-Syrians might regard as terrorists for eating the intestines of dead government soldiers now and then, the Syrian conflict may continue for a few years with increased support from Hezballah and other neo-Shiite allies of the neo-Shia Alawite Assad Government. With such an alumni of terrorist pros gathering experience in the conflicts of the Middle East Israel will need to increase it's vigilance. After the end of the conflict in Syria pro or con the terrorist underground networks may seek further employment attacking Israel with renewed support from the infusion of small arms and weapons of war loosed during the Arab Spring of Revolt. In time the traditional unifying factor of terrorist networks might resume the trash talk and attack Israel axis of evil.

Probably the better time for a two-state solution was before all of the changes of the Arab spring and profusion of terrorists and terrorist weapons throughout the Middle East. In the present destabilized environment Israel will have to hunker down and increase its defense capabilities and border security. Perhaps in a decade or two after the present generation of radicals ages a little it might be a stable and responsible enough environment of political leadership for a two-state solution with some land in Syria or Egypt going to Palestinians in addition to the Gaza and some West Bank properties. It would probably be best though that evolution through twittering and Facebooked friendly relations and business practices develop such that in time the regional exploitation of workers issues wither away.

Afghanistan's Social-Military Development; Michael Hastings & 'The Operators'

When a reporter working for Rolling Stone magazine did a story on then commander of U.S. and ISAF troops in Afghanistan four-star general Stan McCrystal in 2010 the die was cast for revealing the V.P. 'Bite-me' appellation heard round the world, and General McCrystal's resignation was accepted when the pdf report was leaked. The reporter Michael Hastings wrote a fine book on the in-depth development of the story with interviews with the general and his staff in Europe and Afghanistan as well as a wealth of information about the war, the effect on the people of Afghanistan and the costs. The booked is named 'The Operators' after McCrystal's Special Forces and JSOC personal history. Operators are what Delta force personnel are called. Instead of being another truth-better-than fiction action adventure tale one might expect, The Operators is a high-level view of how politicians and generals got it wrong.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/16/afghanistan-drawdown-take-security-lead-from-us-nato_n_3450858.html?utm_hp_ref=world

The Huffington Post blog today has a story on the soon to be announced transition of Afghan security forces taking the lead from American and ISAF forces in Afghanistan, and it seems about time. Hasting's book provides some detail about the Afghan security forces and American political-military management of the war that are a little disturbing. The war for one thing just didn't seem necessary. We sent a conventional Army to fight against a non-existent insurgency. Initially the C.I.A. supported the Northern Alliances efforts to take down the Taliban successfully helped with a few Blue-72 bombs, Special Forces and bucket loads of cash. Only then did the large military build-up begin to take out an Al-Qae'da that were mostly gone and that had been Arabs and international terrorists doing guest training in country.

Hastings writes that the majority of Afghan soldiers and security forces smoke hashish, as does President Karzai. Homosexual exploitation of boys by Afghan security forces is also common. They have a phrase 'boys are for fun and girls are for children' in Afghanistan. We do not need to support such a Muslim society that is implicitly corrupt perhaps through the effects of decades of foreign intervention.

In my opinion the United States can't get anything right economically and uses military power instead of defensible ecospheric economic intervention that survives anyone's terror attacks. There is just no green economic genius in the U.S. military and politicians tend to be clueless about foreign intelligence before intervention militarily.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Operators-Terrifying-Americas-Afghanistan/dp/0452298962

There are plans to build-up warlords to persist regionally after the U.S. drawdown and let the corrupt at least offset development of a Taliban-led fundamentalist state. In such a political climate U.S. Special Forces might interpolate to attack incipient international terrorist training bases theoretically. Billions being spent tends to be the first congressional response to international terrorism defense even if there isn't any good reason for it. It's as if students with the flunking math scores are running the U.S. government and that isn't very helpful to the economic bottom line or dead civilians.

Accuracy is important in chess, and it's important in economics and war as well. U.S. generals like Stan McCrystal don't have the authority to just win the war, and civilian political leaders haven't the competence to run the war if it isn't conventional at least.  That is one present problem for the American democracy. Wrong political choices and management mean wars are badly addressed. Not even the counter-insurgency techniques of General Petraeus (COIN) derived from Galula's doctrine were meaningful for Afghanistan. Insurgent recruitment increased to resist the foreign invaders (U.S.) whenever we killed an insurgent or two. The 'insurgency' was that of natives at home defending against aloof, wealthy killers spending money on defense items like drunken sailors-maybe to find Bin Laden, who was probably allowed to escape from Torah Borah to Pakistan years before.

Anand (Ind) vs Carlsen (Nor) World Chess Championship Nov. 6 to 26, 2013

The 2013 World Chess Championship match between champion Viswanathan Anand and first-time challenger Magnus Carlsen will be held in Chennai India in November. The 22 year old Norwegian will square off against the 43 year old Anand who is brilliant at counter play.  Carlsen has the highest-ever chess rating at 2864. Anand's rating is fourth in the world at 2786.

The chess world three decades after saturation of pc's and chess programs has taken a turn toward the quick. Timed games online at chess.com may have 10,000 players on any given Saturday. It's free to join and amusing intellectually to play. youtube has many free chess videos from chess coaches like thechesswebsite, MatoJelic and Kingscrusher. Following the action of master-class chess players online in live blitz games lasting five or ten minutes, or as little as one minute bullet games is a refreshing way to clear the cobwebs out. It takes about a year to learn to play at a 1000 level, so there is some work required to move one's score up  the ladder. 

World chess champions of the past started chess playing as early as age four (Karpov). Carlsen was a Grand master at age 13. There are three players with scores higher than 2800 and they all started playing chess early in the morning.

Club chess players are those with ratings between 1200 and 1800. Higher than that one finds FIDE masters (FM's), National and International masters and Grand masters (GMs). In the world there are about a thousand Grand masters. What is interesting about the present highest-level chess play is the large number of players rated higher than 2700. The U.S.A. has a player-Hikaru Nakamura, rated 5th in the world with just two fewer points than Anand. Aronian, Kramnik, Karjakin, Topolov, Grischuck and Caruana are other top-ten rated players that one expects to be challenging in the future, whoever wins the thrilla in Chennai.

Image credit: U.S. public domain Philadelphia Museum of Art 1917 Juan Gris, Chessboard, Glass and Dish

Snowden's Theft of N.S.A. Data Indicates Broad Exposure to Digital Corruption

Edward Snowden's theft of N.S.A. surveillance information to reveal to the public and Communist Chinese the depth of technical penetration of communications networks does indicate the tip of the iceberg of data mining the upper classes and criminal gangs exploit. Douglas Bamford's excellent 2009 book on the N.S.A. The Shadow Factory provided a in-depth look into the covert-overt agency. Private sector data mining companies track a lot of information too. Not just online either; r.t.f. chips in everything from smart cards to automobile parts and phones are tied in to computer networks tracking the location of hard-wired Americans.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Shadow-Factory-Eavesdropping-America/dp/0307279391

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_mining

http://www.kypost.com/dpp/news/region_central_cincinnati/downtown/data-mining-is-big-business-for-kroger-&-getting-bigger-all-the-time

It is interesting that any sort of debate exists on Snowden's violation of public trust. Democracy requires that people obey the laws voluntarily. That the N.S.A. does data mining means that its part of the real modern world. The public ought to be alarmed about the inherent insecurity of Internet communications and general data tracking yet of course they aren't. It's too complex and abtruse of a topic to be concerned about and if their privacy goes out the window well, they already probably tweeted something about their criminal activities anyway.

It is probable that a complete reformation of the Internet and cell phones, rtf card readers and other surveillance structures should be redesigned to enable virtually complete privacy. The crackerbox palaces of modern high-rise office buildings that collapse like a house of cards if hit by some jet fuel explosive should be phased out and modern artificial mountain range living structures with high-quality ecosphere contribution phased in. No one in politics has any interest in a competent reform of anything though. Evolution toward the global warming, mass extinction of bio-diversity, mass human population collapse through conflict, scarce resources and the death of individual freedom from the interference-of-others via mass control,  the concentration of wealth and repression of individual free enterprise because of the corporatist controlled political environment will probably go ahead like a reciprocal of the recession of glaciers. Not too worry. It will be twitted and reported when it happens.

Development of Marine Nitrogen Cycle Knowledge & Global Warming

Development of knowledge of the marine nitrogen cycle has increased the past twenty years. Molecular biology and genetic database technology provided new insights into what, where and how oceanic nitrogen is transformed, fixed and sequestered.  The recently published McGill University study (see article link below) showed that a few thousand years are needed for the oceans to adapt to global warming. 


http://aem.asm.org/content/68/3/1015.full  Nitrogen Cycling in the Ocean: New Perspectives on Processes and Paradigms

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130614111606.htm McGill University study to quantity ocean nitrogen cycle response to climate change.

More protection for S.E. Alaska salmon habitat would be helpful if that fish is to survive in the century ahead in the wild.

http://m.juneauempire.com/state/2013-06-11/scientists-ask-protections-salmon-tongass

Pres. Obama to Arm Rebels, P.M. Cameron Claims Syria Used Sarin & Killed 150

Though Germany invented Sarin gas in 1938 the United States and Britain developed large stocks and perhaps the first casualty was a British test subject at Porton Down. Sarin is about 500 times more powerful than cyanide and can kill  in a minute. Sarin is a nerve agent and messes up neuro-chemicals. The administrations of the U.S., Britain and France claim the Assad government used Sarin on the rebels and killed 150 of them. We are a little skeptical because it is a potential excuse for U.S. intervention on the side of the rebels.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/14/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE95C16L20130614

If the Assad government used a chemical weapon it would be quite bad (it was outlawed by the U.N. in the 1990's). We wonder though why Assad would use such a politically dangerous weapon to kill just one-hundred people instead of conventional yet effective weapons of which he has plenty. We wonder if the claim is another Gulf of Tonkin resolution or W.M.D. in Saddam Hussein's Iraq quanta of political flim flam? Twice-burned once shy.  With defense outlays for Afghanistan winding down in 2014 the military-industrial complex may be searching for new places to drop munitions for profit (defense contractors need to resupply the U.S. military for profit).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22908836#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa

Senator McCain has already called for U.S. intervention to ground the Syrian Air Force. Cratering explosives on airfields and maybe Stinger should-launched missiles for Al Qaeda visiting rebels might do the trick. One wonders if the Syrian Air Force was used to kill just one-hundred rebels with Sarin by air drops of bombs?

In 2004 Iraqi rebels used an artillery shell with two-part Sarin precursors to attack a U.S. convoy ineffectively because the shell needed to rotate at high speed to mix the Sarin and an I.E.D. wouldn't do it. Syria has artillery and tanks to launch Sarin-precursor filled shells (not like creme-filled donuts) if they wanted to, so where is the effectiveness of a no-fly zone for controlling a possible Sarin attack from the air? It seems possible that former Iraqi rebels have a store of Sarin-precursor filled artillery shells that they might be able to use as guest-rebels for Team Sunni in Syria. We are skeptical about the Sarin fog of war, and hope for restraint from the Condor legion wing of the U.S. Government lusting for no-fly zones abroad until use of chemical weapons becomes a solidly witnessed and documented fact. 

A substantive approach to verification of quanta of contemporary history requires a probability curve of use consistent with military objectives in the given political environment. The allegation of technical use of Sarin gas by the Assad government of Syria thus far is not convincing. It seems to be a managed political level akin to claiming the unemployment rate was 7.9% before the Nov. 2012 Presidential election rather than 8.0. True or not there were still 30 million souls out of work in the U.S.A.


Image credit of Rocky Mountain Arsenal 1970 Sarin dtest rabbit-Library of Congress photo taken by U.S. Forest Service employee.

Evolution as Intelligent Design- Evolving Moral Positions and Intellectual Content v.2

 Sartre once said that he had evolved a new idea on what an intellectual is. President Obama used the phrase that he was evolving a new opinion about homosexual marriage decades later. Evolving subjective intellectual content is a self-regarded activity these days. One cannot be sure if such intellectual development evolves because of random chance or the natural selection of saying what the people want to here most in order to get political power (regardless of the merit of the idea). If evolution of ideas is powered by conscious, intentional thought then evolution comprises design. That paradox is ponderous. It means that evolution and intelligent design are synonyms. Evolving an opinion about the whore in the harbor of Babylon the Great trading with all the nations of the world might be easier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_g8JVK4Fppw Sartre on 'What an Intellectual Is'

If morality is what people actually do in a social context, then perhaps ethics is a description of the normalized procedures for implementing moral choices. Certainly people seem to choose to do wrong often enough with select ethical criterions, yet perhaps for atheists without belief in a transcendent moral structure there is no wrong, but only evolution. How can it be wrong for Hitler to invade Poland within an evolutionary criterion? For Christians and Dietrich Bonhoeffer that wickedness of the Reich should have been morally and actually opposed?

One may reasonably oppose the existence of a logical condition as being present if there is present some sort of factor that cannot coexist simultaneously.

Not (A & B).

A or B

A & B

If one can prove these simple conditions to be valid for select, or Universal circumstances inclusive of an omnipotent God then I suppose one would have a hard to defeat bunker position with a clear enough logical field of fire, yet I believe that the presence of evil (if one recognizes evil and is not just atheistically 'evolving' an advantageous position does not satisfy the Universal disjunct logically.

Not simply because complex numbers evidently are used for description in quantum mechanics and one day for quantum computing that transcend the binary 0 or 1 criteria of computers today, but for the reason that God stipulated right out that people have original sin and a fallen nature. The premise is that given immortality mankind might become even more wicked than now. Mankind is given to labor and women to go through childbirth and mortality would abbreviate the evil of human experience.

That doesn't mean that human beingness is bad-only that the human nature to go wrong needs to be overcome through faith, yet I wanted to remain on logical grounds rather than that of faith for the present.

I have no idea what sort of things God might want to accomplish in eternity. I believe that God is tougher than NFL players with those concussive head injuries however, and he might be able to withstand tough things in the Universe that he creates perhaps as stress tests. Certainly human beings going through some of those horrible times were quite remarkably tough. Those Christians eaten by lions or burned alive for their faith were of strong moral character. Even some Buddhists that have burned themselves in protest of war showed a certain ability to overcome the horrors possible of the mortal coil, yet one would think that it should be evil rather than one's self that does evil in-the-world.

I think that the problem of evil is not something that precludes the existence of the Divine being-especially since He exists for eternity, sent His Son to share the experience and is has enough time to make things right.

U6 Unemployment Rate at More Than 13%

The U6 unemployment rate for the United States is still more than 13%. Its a very soft labor market across the nation. The U6 rate for blacks may be twice that if the numbers are comparable to the U3 unemployment rate of 7.6% for all and 13.% for blacks. The Union of the Unemployed web site reports the real May 31 unemployment rate at 16%. Many of the new jobs pay minimum wage. Neo-liberalism is a sorry approach to take in the U.S. democracy today. It throws in the towel on globalism, global warming and mass extinction.

http://portalseven.com/employment/unemployment_rate_u6.jsp

http://www.unionofunemployed.com/blog

Fake Conservatives Seek Amnesty for Illegal Aliens- They Won't Fix the Border Problem Though

Republicrat Senators seeking a sweet deal for illegal aliens foist a pseudo-conservative theme (they may believe it's easy to fool the conservative crowd ) of immigration reform. The plain facts are in contradistinction to the false-conservative claims.

Illegal aliens would certainly get their neo-amnesty. That's just a paper deal that corrupt politicians believe would get them votes from Hispanics (whom may not all be racists against full employment for present U.S. citizens). The part about a border being made secure is pie-in-the-sky though. Maybe that would be funded, maybe it would be effective, maybe. What is certain is that cheap labor numbers will swell in the U.S.A. 

Rational and honest politicians would secure the border first. Not simultaneously, not later-before any consideration is developed about anything concerning a change in the illegal status of illegal alien immigrants. If the issue of securing the Mexican border was easy to resolve its hard to believe that Republicrats wouldn't have gone ahead and done that already. Why didn't they? Was it too difficult? Were they too aloof and corrupt to be concerned about the flood of cheap foreign labor that cut down the real wages of lower class American citizens?

Fake conservative ads warn of the danger of an unsecured Mexican border and prescribe the remedy of legalizing millions of illegal aliens followed by the green-cheese-of-the-moon-will-fall-to-the Earth-thus feeding-us-all assurance that later on the border will be secure. Anyone knows that the premise is no more than b.s. At least a half million will still be able to wander over any time they feel like it. 

The fake conservative policy is like making concessions to terrorists in order to secure the well-being of the nation. Sure thing Einsteins.

If  Republicrat and Democrat Senators ever took substantial action that would reduce illegal alien numbers through illegal border crossing to fewer than 10,000 souls per year sober deliberation upon the number of illegal aliens that should be normalized-perhaps through military service or some other form of social restitution that wouldn't affect the unemployment rate might be considered. Needless to say, if the national unemployment rate is higher than 3% it is unconscionable to even consider welcoming millions of illegal job takers.

Dark-Disc Universe- The Paper on a New Kind of Dark Matter

The concept by Andrey Katz and others published May 23rd in Physical Review Letters is an interesting theory designed to account for the 'missing' source of gravity keeping spinning galaxies from flying apart. The regular mass of galaxies generally isn't sufficient to keep them together. Such facts make it seem like no surprise that the omega factor of mass in the Universe is dubious- Enough mass to make Universal  mass collapse toward a Big Crunch although close-on the basis of observable mass - seems to be insufficient after the 1990's determination that the expansion of the Universe is accelerating. If there were much more unobserved 'dark' matter one would think that the Universe should be slowing down or reversing toward a Big Crunch.

Dark-Disk Universe 
JiJi Fan, Andrey Katz, Lisa Randall, and Matthew Reece 
Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 211302 (2013)

http://physics.aps.org/synopsis-for/print/10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.211302

http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v110/i21/e211302

http://www.space.com/21508-dark-matter-atoms-disks.html

It is of course difficult to be entirely accurate about cosmological theory and it's logic these days especially for those of us that are house painters, writers or file clerks. If there is a lot of undiscovered dark matter keeping galaxies together as hidden sources of gravity the stuff of the Universe should be much more. Dark matter doesn't seem to exist or interact with anything except the space-time field. Hopefully untaxed and possible unregulated dark matter isn't some sort of counter-intuitive time reversing subversive agent of forward progress.

Yet dark energy is also believed to exist as a kind of anti-gravity that pushes space into increased expansion. If there are cosmological constants they must be of a qualitative rather than a quantitative kind for new dark energy and mass. Does such new dark matter and dark energy mean fine-tuning values are off? Was dark energy factored into Einstein's field equations of General Relativity?

I wonder why dark atoms of a dark-disc universe aren't evident on Earth? Regular mass is certainly present, yet if unknown dark atoms exist there should be dark objects, dark planets and dark stars if the dark matter can form. Without dark star novas one wouldn't think complex dark mass would be produced through the dark fusion parallel of normal matter. Dark matter existing in a separate but equal form would still need to interact with regular mass enough to keep the aforementioned galaxies together. 

So dark matter cannot be entirely segregated - it must share the water fountains of a Jim Crow Universe in some way to help compile the total gravitational field of any given galaxy. The galactic city has all these undocumented workers of force in a complex, invisible to us, alternate  part of the Universe.

 One can hypothesize about dark matter in addition to light matter, yet the determination of its potential for being extra crunchy or not is up in the air.  One can hypothesize that Dirac, Pauli Weinberg and Heisenberg didn't get all quantum field mapped out well enough and that maybe space isn't really warped-its just the way mass interacts that seems to be warped space.

I have no idea how much of the Universe has dark matter or if it's development of structures would be equal to that of normal mass and galaxies. Perhaps dark matter has just a comparative portion of the wealth of mass and power of the non-dark elites and cannot form it's own structures but just 'trickles up' it's gravitational power to let our Universe have a reasonable standard of living. Well, sacrifices must sometimes be made for the good of the power majority.

Seriously though the interesting connection between hypothetical dark matter is the at the core of the inquiry. It may be some kind of unknown small particle like a graviton that drifts about looking from a cold, dark Universe into the window of a warm, convivial dinner party of regular mass. Alternately it could be that space isn't  warped by mass, and instead gravity affects only mass in complex ways unknown to present theorists. That is, mass acts upon mass and space is simply the volume in which mass exists. Space however has no quantifiable physical characteristics.

Gender Wage Gap is a Good Democratic Political Trick

President Obama has developed the disparity between average male and female wages to his political advantage. He noted recently that females average only about 70% of male income in the U.S.A. and that change needs to happen. Part of the trouble is in comparing different occupations; should a file clerk get the same pay as a roustabout with 8th grade education, more or less? Is an office worker with a college degree comparable to the hard, dangerous life of the offshore oil patch?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/10/obama-equal-pay-act_n_3416121.html

In a perfect world a worker working ten quanta would be paid for ten quanta objectively and impartially. The sex, age, race or perversion of the worker would just not be a factor. Yet U.S. politicians instead develop a zillion laws to make 'corrections' to social inequality that have a cumulative of institutionalizing unfair and irrational economics.

Perhaps the President expects male wages to drop another 30% or females to get 30% raises to create an even field where work contribution is secondary to the personal characteristics of the person's class making a contribution. That is not an ergonomic compensation field.

We know that government work is largely neutered and machines can do the heavy lifting. Everyone has a swell paycheck and benefits in government. With the college degree and the desk, smart phone and tablet government workers twitter equally. Yet government work isn't on a free enterprise foundation and cannot be a model for reform of the private sector through swelling too-big-to-suffer-consequences-for-rash-risk corporations and making them homo-friendly.

President Obama supports legalization of millions of illegal aliens as new cheap American workers. That would help lower male wages to a certain extent following laws of labor supply and demand. Yet wages for men in the non-service worker sector probably won't drop enough to please Mr. Obama and his Harvard economic elite martinets even if new illegal aliens arrive to do the dirty and dangerous or difficult work if the wages drop too low. The primary benefit for the President will be in continuing to drive a wage between female and male Republican voters. More Republicrats may be elected. The nation can go further along its course of decay.

If one writes about economic reform and finds the Republican corporate powers unfair, the Democrats will lend a sympathetic ear. Yet what they mean by reform and what and intelligent soul means are quite different. Democrats mean redistribution of income from Republicans to gender, race and perversion criteria selected constituents while the intelligent soul may mean things like capping the size of government and corporations, transitioning to full-employment and ecological economics, and assuring that even minimum wage provides a descent standard of living. The intelligent soul will be disillusioned.

The gender wage gap exploits male workers as well as females politically. Instead of work being regarded qualitatively and quantitatively objective it's inherently class biased. The U.S. Government, comprised of so many incompetent, and uncreative individuals better-suited to communes or corporations than self-employment pose and posture very well-even with Hollywood Stars and pass laws that are a patchwork of illogic and economic contradictions with unfair compensation to compensate the rich for risk biased toward the poor. How otherwise could Gov. Chris Christie, New Jersey and New York get $60 billion for storm damage and high water? How can the government provide easy sweetheart bailouts to corporations and banks and those that build or buy homes in floodplains? President Obama forced through the Nixon-Romney corporate health care act to create another vast and complex opportunity for pork barrel flummery. Free health care for the poor inn quality expanded V.A. hospitals would have been faster, cheaper and better. That would not have helped the aging immaterial work sector Democrat majority afford $250,000 per year health care to let them live to age two or three hundred if possible. It's questionable that the original intent of F.D.R. was to let workers or foreign workers contribute enough to let the middle class live like the rich in retirement or before.

Effete electron pushing house flippers and the swollen financial service sector making up 30%- of the workforce produce nothing material nor do physical work. The heavy lifting isn't a language activity. The non-dirty, dangerous or heavy lifting workers just want to reallocate a little more profit unto themselves.

Ideally work should be viewed entirely quantified -not considered through the lens of gender, race or perversion paradigmata. If one lifts 100 pounds ten times a day that should pay more than lifting 10 pounds five times a month. In America the threat is development of non-objectivity in work compensation. Equal opportunity to work should be foundational. The quality and quantity of work an individual does should be objectively measured and receive objective pay.

Those inclined to exploit others for profit have forever developed temporary methods for doing so. The Democrat party today is in the line of developing non-objective criteria of compensation and opportunity. Work opportunity should never be closed to an adult American citizen during their life. Work is an inalienable right and piecework for independents is probably the ideal social direction to evolve in.

The move of a majority of Americans into non-production service sector jobs without heavy lifting brings some enmity toward those saturation divers, professional athletes, building tradesmen and industrial workers that receive good compensation largely for males. The elite trend has been toward degrading that work and skimming wages to the immaterial work sector of the majority. President Obama has adroitly exploited the lower average income status of women and omitted mention whatsoever of fairness for all workers that should be on an objective basis.

Writers like to get paid by the word sometimes and get fair pay for their work. Of course it's difficult to assess qualitative values outside the marketplace. One could use MSword's grade level function and pay more for writing at a grade 16+ level than for level 8-. The marketplace has an element of unfair advantage to it as well as supply and demand. Location being everything it's sometimes difficult to get around corrupt government bureaucracies to legislate real change. President Obama should stop playing the gender card politically and instead seek a rectification of fair pay for objective work in the workplace and every worker. In the absence of social justice venality, corruption and the evil of iniquity forces concentration of wealth with decline of ecosphere and economy.

Republicrat Sen. Ayotte Throws Support to Illegal Alien Job Upgrades

The U.S. Senate is considering legislation to upgrade job prospects for 10-20 million illegal aliens this week. Republicrat Senator Ayotte of New Hampshire says she will support the measure to bump more unemployed Americans further off the ladder to prosperity. The Senate of course is expressing no interest or knowledge of the tens of millions of discouraged American job seekers experiencing long-term unemployment or underemployment. Instead the Senate smiles with approval on trillions of dollars of bail-outs to too-big-to-suffer-the-consequences-of-risk banks and automobile corporations while enjoying the rise in Wall Street values as the Federal Reserve issues hundreds of billions of zero-interest loans to banks so they can buy up distressed homes.

Unemployed American citizens are broke rather than the immigration system. If the Senate would pass a law letting all U.S. law enforcement agencies arrest and remand to federal custody undocumented aliens for right-of-return to their own nation, the problem would dry up soon enough, even without creation of a comprehensive Mexican-American border ecoszone to filter out illegal entry.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-3460_162-57588391/ayotte-announces-critical-gop-support-for-senate-immigration-bill/

Traditional Quality Leadership for U.S.A. in 2016?

The United States has failed to produce substantive quality leadership in its Presidential campaigns the past several years. The desire to select race or gender candidates has taken priority over economic and ecospheric management quality. With the form-over-substance criteria the United States has entered a period of comparative economic decline and poor management of protracted wars. We not only liked Ike, the nation experienced general prosperity. Dwight D. Eisenhower had integrity and credibility.

 Former four-star Army General McKiernan is a where-are-they-now kind of leader with advanced degrees from Stanford, Harvard (we don't hold that against him) and elsewhere. McKiernan is the kind of Republican candidate that no longer stands for office, yet the Republican party certainly could use a few like that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_D._McKiernan

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_economics

http://yosemite.epa.gov/ee/epa/eed.nsf/pages/homepage

There seems to be little prospect for a Ralph Nader with military experience and an advanced degree in environmental economics. The build-up of large public debt, outsourcing of production, perennial high unemployment, decline of the environment and so forth are simply the line-up for the way things are.

The war in Afghanistan seemed to be a consequence of the bureaucratic inertia of the Eastern elite organizational intertia in which there was no good leadership. Afghanistan has a zillion valleys and locals that fight rival valley tribes and foreigners. We should have done better by just being a supplier of goods, economic ideas and support and military equipment for locals seeking autonomy instead of seeking to foist a large central government on those people that disdain such entities. Our Syria policy might actually have worked in Afghanistan. In Syria we seek to disestablish a central government authority through support of a zillion militias while in Afghanistan we seek to fight Afghanis accustomed to local autonomy and force them into  submission to a modern, centralized state bureaucracy. After 2014 that entire structure may collapse like a phase transition to a more stable, lower energy level.

One wonders if the nation can even consider electing a Presidential candidate without a Hollywood shine and pooffiness of character acceptable to the Gay-Lesbian-Transgendered-Neutered-Bisexual foundation of the Democrat party today, or one that isn't simply sold out to global corporatism? 

Preview of Creation and Cosmos - The Literal Values of Genesis 2nd Ed

I have a new preview for the second edition of Creation and Cosmos - The Literal Values of Genesis providing a better idea of the content. Quite a few topics on contemporary cosmology are new to the second edition, and there are new ideas from a number of sources on Biblical development and history as well.

http://www.lulu.com/items/volume_75/13007000/13007143/20/preview/Preview_Creation__Cosmos_The_Literal_Values_of_Genesis_2nd_Ed.epub

http://www.lulu.com/shop/garrison-clifford-gibson/creation-and-cosmos-the-literal-values-of-genesis/ebook/product-20564034.html

Social Network Analysis to Help Infected Chimps-What About Humans?

Social network analysis technique may be used to help prevent disease communication among chimps. Obviously some will note that social network analysis among humans may be used for evil as well as good.

http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/rHXkrYcG7ec/130605104438.htm

Criminal networks may use social network to enfilade prey. Predatory capitalists may use social network analysis to identify easy pickins and political organs may use social network analysis to package the right disinformation with on-time delivery to the right e-mail address or social network user.

Chimps and humans have many similarities obviously. Each have five fingers and toes, like bananas and are ethically challenged. Humans at least have recognition of original sin although some evos are trying to erase that notion.

Chimps may not benefit from social networking sites as some humans do.That is chimps may not enjoy twittering although I doubt that an experiment to determine that has yet taken place. Chimps are more immune from the downside of social networks as well as the good. Social networks on the Internet can help for a kind of popular intellectual gridlock through the ubiquitous mass communication of ideas. Ideas can be disseminated quickly of course, and the power and intertial development of wrong or of a limited false alternative range of ideas can prevent the development of creative thought and good ideas through displacement.

image credit: http://www.publicdomainpictures.net

The Syrian War Is An International Project

The Syrian war seems something of an international project that would not have developed so far as 80,000 dead without much international support including that of the United State's Obama administration. There is something about supporting the development of avoidable foreign conflicts that appeals to some when their own military is not engaged in action. Death of civilians is sometimes  not a problem sufficient enough for an Obama administration to carefully consider a priori what consequences their support for the incipient Syrian conflict would occur. Reasonable people know the nature of the Syrian Government and regional circumstances enough to know that it would not easily relinquish power.

The United Nations has reported the probable use of chemical weapons in Syria by one side or the other in the conflict-or perhaps both, yet since the U.S. propaganda about weapons of mass destruction in Saddam Hussein's Iraq turned out to be as bogus as the facts used in the Gulf of Tonkin resolution we are somewhat skeptical about the veracity and language used in media releases of casus belli for possible intervention or escalation of foreign military action in 3rd party conflicts.

The U.S. administration's logic is difficult to follow on Middle East policy. President Obama appeared to have stimulated and green lighted the Arab Spring with his Cairo speech and of course supported the Libyan revolution. American interests in repressing Al Qa'eda-a Sunni extremist organization coincided with ideas about fostering the development of democratic government in the Middle East that weren't evidently overly practical. The Saudi Royals are anything besides democratic, our friends in the Hashamite monarchy of Jordan are nice yet royal too, the Muslim Brotherhood of Egypt of which the President of Egypt is a member appears to be at least mildly interested in developing Shria Muslim law and so forth. Democracy is not a traditional form of Arab social organization and might require deep sociological changes before such an experiment might ensue successfully. We tend to believe that Arab democracies would slip into the  French  republic into Napoleonic leadership autocracy mode for a few generations before they reached the perfection of a Nixon or Obama administration in enforcing equal protection of the law.

If the Obama administration is concerned about destabilizing Syria and accomplishing some form of adult abortion service for that region in harmony with the partisan political action committee Planned Parenthood's agenda on a global scale or not the greater objectives of containing the Iranian Government and President Amadinijab (to cannot run for another term as Iranian Preident) and his threats on Israel may seem to be advanced with a Syrian conflict supported by Sunni wealth, visiting Al Qa'eda terrorists and financial and equipment contributions to rebels from the United States.

Russia has of course contributed military weapons to the Syrian Government while N.A.T.O. has seemed to provide support for the rebels along with the Friends of Syria organization. Russia has naval facilities in Syria that allow their vessels to have a warm water port outside the Black Sea-a concern the United States ought to keep in mind. It is an historical concern of Russia that should not be lightly disregarded as unimportant value to Russians they can bite the bullet on. Russia's other interests in support of a non Sunni Muslim presence below it's southern border may be related to its concerns about domestic Russia terrorism from the Sunni of Chechnya or elsewhere. It may also be that Russia seeks weapons sales as much as the United States for economic purposes. Perhaps the Obama administration should consider buying a few Migs to improve Russo-American relations.

It still seems to me that the best thing that could be done to reduce the Syrian conflict would be for the Obama administration to stop making statements in support of the rebels and to quit providing material assistance to the rebels. Quantifying the effects of a violent transition in the Syrian Government upon the Alawite and Hezballah of Lebanon is not easy. It is probable that some sort of new era of purging and terrorism could develop, and some sort of flight of those people  to Iran. Perhaps those people might also develop more support for the Northern alliance side of Afghanistan in a post-American military era in that nation. If the Syrian Government of Assad is driven out of office even with strong support from his own tribal group the Sunni forces of the region make look with a swell of pride toward new objectives in Afghanistan in the belief that renewed and increased terrorism might drive the minority Northern Alliance out entirely and purge Afghanistan of non-Sunni political power.

It would have been best if the Syrian war had not developed but of course the Mr. McGoo foreign policy approach seems to work for the Obama administration, and it is a foreign war without American casualties. It would still have been better to have let democracy develop through peaceful twittering without a military component. Evolution inn politics through gradual change can be better than the bullets and explosives, chemical weapons and foreign interventions of deep water internationalism.